Help I need to choose a capture card

[r55]

Hi all, I know this has been asked loads of times, but I do need help.
My current system us as follows:
Asus CUSL2-C mobo, PIII 1GHz, 512MB RAM,
40GB IBM HDD, 100GB WD HDD, Creative SBLive! 5.1 Platinum
Windows 2000, Pioneer DVD-R A03.

What I need help is in choosing a capture card. I did have a AVMaster, but it is old, and doesn't want to work with my machine, so I thought I'd get a new one.

Anyway, what I want to do with it, is capture high quality video form S-VHS (maybe DV aswell), take it into premiere or avid xpress DV and then export it as MPEG-2 using cinema craft. I have DVD-authoring software, so I don't really need a bundle. All I need to do is be able to capture at high quality with the ability to import it into premiere or avid and then create DVD's.

I've had a look at various cards out there, but with so many it's begining to get confusing. I was looking into the Matrox RT X100, but it looks like it does more than I need.

Any help would be greatly appeciated.
r55

[ironwood321]

Hi,
It looks as if you have a fair bit of money with your £2500 of Avid Express DV software (did you get the power pack option as well) so its best probably to invest in bits of equipment.

Also Avid Express DV 3.5 is out so I would take advantage of the upgrade options as they relatively cheap at the moment

You probably already have a firewire card so A DV bridge would be ideal such as the Canopus ADVC100 and a Time base Corrector. Or if money is no object a Panasonic or JVC DV Deck with analogue inputs should be fine.

So your into semi professional / professional video. You must have a big money making project lined up for you investment so far.

Best not to use premiere as your AVID set-up would clearly wipe the floor of anything you accomplish with premiere plus AVID is alot easier to use.